Abstract
‘A new dawn has broken, has it not?’
The question once posed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair following his 1997 Labour landslide is once again in fashion in British politics, following Keir Starmer’s 2024 Labour landslide on July 4th. Yet, given new Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s promise of a ‘foreign policy reset’ following fourteen years of Conservative governance, it remains unclear how much of the 2021 Integrated Review, its ‘Indo-Pacific tilt’ and its cautious consideration of an increasingly important ‘Taiwan issue’ will be discarded in Lammy’s reset. Thus, does Labour’s landslide mean a new dawn for the role of Taiwan in British foreign policy?
The question once posed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair following his 1997 Labour landslide is once again in fashion in British politics, following Keir Starmer’s 2024 Labour landslide on July 4th. Yet, given new Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s promise of a ‘foreign policy reset’ following fourteen years of Conservative governance, it remains unclear how much of the 2021 Integrated Review, its ‘Indo-Pacific tilt’ and its cautious consideration of an increasingly important ‘Taiwan issue’ will be discarded in Lammy’s reset. Thus, does Labour’s landslide mean a new dawn for the role of Taiwan in British foreign policy?
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | Taiwan Insight |
| Publication status | Published - 23 Jul 2024 |